Production Planner Scheduler Supervisor

Production Planner Scheduler Supervisor

The Production Planner Scheduler Supervisor is a position tasked with developing, maintaining, and optimizing detailed production schedules to ensure efficient manufacturing operations. This role involves coordinating with procurement, operations, logistics, and quality teams to meet customer delivery requirements, minimize inventory, and optimize resource utilization. The Planner / Scheduler Supervisor plays a strategic role in capacity planning, material requirements planning, and continuous process improvement.

Responsibilities :

• Develop and manage mid- to long-term master production schedules based on sales forecasts, customer orders, and inventory targets.
• Translate demand into production work orders, ensuring availability of materials and labor.
• Collaborate with procurement and inventory teams to ensure material availability for production.
• Identify material supply issues and communicate potential schedule impacts with management, developing recovery strategies.
• Optimize production workflows by leveling workloads across work centers and resolving capacity constraints.
• Monitor production performance daily, identifying delays or bottlenecks.
• Analyze and maintain schedules using ERP / MRP systems.
• Ensure on-time delivery of customer orders while maintaining optimal inventory levels.
• Lead scheduling meetings with cross-functional teams to align priorities and address conflicts.
• Implement best practices and continuous improvement initiatives in scheduling and planning processes.
• Create reports and dashboards on key KPIs such as schedule adherence and capacity utilization.
• Support new product introductions by integrating requirements into production plans.
• Train and mentor junior planners or schedulers.

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About Actalent :

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.